Good afternoon, everybody!
Wow. The response to my request for orders to reach 400 was immediate, and I’m grateful. In just a short amount of time, we’re more than halfway there. Only three more copies until Disintegration hits that milestone!
If you haven’t yet contributed, please do. Nearly 250 people can’t be wrong, right?? There are 57 of you who are following, but haven’t yet purchased a copy. Tell me how I convince you. :)
If you have credits and would like to make an exchange, I will gladly reciprocate. Please use my referral link (
Special thanks to Seamus Scanlon (my good friend. He is a great author and playwright, check him out on facebook), Amanda Orneck (author of Deus Hex Machina. Help her book about a female hacker collective in dystopic Orange County reach the Quill threshold!), Michael Haase (author of The Madness of Mister Butler, which is currently second-place in the Nerdist space-opera contest!), and Peter Ryan (author of Sync City, an intriguing hardboiled narrative about interwoven timelines, where one can traverse the past, present and future as if they were contemporaneous. Plus, motorcycles!)
If anyone among the 57 of you who are still on the sidelines have it in you to order, there’s a prize in it for the 400th and 450th copies sold: a drawing of a character from the book. It may be a major player, or it may be some obscure supporting character ... but, you know, when this thing takes off, it’s going to be a collector’s item. Like the hammerhead action figure from the original Star Wars. :P
Hi, everyone. It’s been a nice little stretch, lately. Disintegration is only seven copies away from 400!
Many thanks to those recent purchasers (and, of course, to all of you who have already supported my book). Some of the recent orders have come from authors participating in the current Nerdist Space Opera contest!
Be sure to check out The Life Interstellar (if you remember Verhoeven’s RoboCop, you’ll love the narrative voice of this story. Zack Jordan is doing a great job with world-building. Follow his book and be entertained by his updates!), The Traveller’s Cup (I love the premise of this story: it has a bit of a Hunger Games feel, but the scope is much grander and it involves SPACE DRAGONS!), Infinity Mind (its plot is reminiscent of Philip K. Dick’s "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale". Mars. Brainwashing. But ... Assassins!) and Champions of the Third Planet (this book is the contest leader. In this tale, five kids band together to save Earth from a faraway threat).
Please, if you haven’t yet ordered a copy of Disintegration, do so now. Help me reach another milestone in my quest to be a fully funded Inkshares author, with all the rights and privileges that affords (Fame! Fortune! Or, at least, royalty checks and rigorous editing!).
Support art and artists! Support independent authors (me! the people I mentioned above!) and publishing companies (Inkshares!).
That is all. :)
Dear Readers,
[Author’s Note: Here we jump ahead a bit to show what the actual space traveling might include]
It was the first time I’d seen stars. All we got on Palunos were the atmosphere-masked suns, but here the contrast was incredible. The map projection showed a yellow fog all around our home system, but nothing here. We were approaching a system called Daeru. For a system it didn’t look like there was much in it. Just wide open space for the next few weeks.
“Any of you want to do . . .
